I can present about the Final Determination letter recently received from the US State Department concerning the amateur radio satellite service.
Open Source satellite work has been determined to be free of ITAR. -Michelle W5NYV On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:33 AM Barry Duggan <ba...@dcsmail.net> wrote: > Thank you for your feedback! It looks like we have a viable idea. > > Here are some additional items to consider: > > ** use BigBlueButton or Zoom > > ** have a host / moderator present a topic with a demonstration > > ** limit to one hour (especially if using BigBlueButton) > > ** a time on the weekend might be better - something like 20:00 UTC? > > ** I will put out a news entry on the gnuradio.org homepage as soon as a > kickoff seems feasible. Marcus will help "as much as he can" > > ** possibly start a GR Ham Radio mailing list like discuss-gnuradio > > Thank you for your continued interest and ideas. > > 73 and stay safe, > --- > Barry Duggan KV4FV > https://github.com/duggabe > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:13:29 +0200, Marcus Müller wrote: > > Hello Barry, hi everyone, > > I just wanted to say I was very impressed with all the activity in the > breakout session, and how productive everything was. > > I'd find it super interesting if aside from the social benefit of > ragchewing (no matter whether that happens on a video conference, via > pure voice comms, or in a text chat), people had would also take the > chance to give a short "impulse" presentation on what they think would > be interesting for the rest; for example, I think Barry's digital > modulations tutorials would be extremely interesting for a lot of people. > > But also, a bit on stuff like (brainstorming here) "how to make use of > the new digital predistortion module to get the most out of my system", > "I've invented a digital mode, and you'll never guess what happened > next", "how it took me a month to figure out why I wasn't seeing any > satellites and why I hate storks", "SDR in club education settings", …. > > Nothing that takes 2 hours, but something to get discussion off the > ground, and then if discussion shows people like where things are going, > go deeper into it. > > Cheers, > Marcus > >
